How would you explain the fact of continuity of experience (i.e. the agreement that THIS is what happened) amongst people ... and what about the fact that our lives seemed bound to the laws of cause and effect? Isn't time, after all, merely an accounting of cause and effect? I think I'm missing some critical points here. Do you have any suggested reading to clarify your points for me. It sounds interesting (preferably not religious material).
Sometimes, your thoughts scream Hegel mixed with theorectical physics to me. :P
Anyway, you reminded me of this poem:
Quote:
A Note Slid Under The Door by William Stafford
Some people don't know this.
A sound lower than silence
begins out of the night that waits
lower than silence, and the voice
descends finer than dust or moonlight
where people awake listen
beyond the dark, finer than
dust and the mistake called life.
In that breath beyond silence
people awake hear this:
"It is the same if you die
or if the world is destroyed -
the world is here because
people found it, a faint
line low in the sky, then
an island, or mainland, then
the place where you live.
Afterward, after you are gone,
the world won't be there any more."
Some people don't know this.
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